Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of the modern college pictures and was an honest attempt to portray student life at a large university without the usual attendant hokum. Harvard itself formed the background for much of the picture. Of course the problem of proper dress cropped up immediately. Jack Conway, the director, solved it by sending to Brooks Brothers of New York for appropriate clothes for his principles. In addition he used as a guide various snapshots taken in and about New Haven. Men's Wear. Cicago Apparel Gazette...
...Boylston Chemical Club will hold a reception this evening at 8 o'clock for all chemistry students in the University in Straus Hall Common Room. The speakers will be Professor T. W. Richards '86, Director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, and Professor G. P. Baxter '96. Refreshments will be served...
...exhibition was less heterogeneous than previous ones; there was not one picture of the 400 hung that did not merit a place in the show. This was because Director Homer Saint-Gaudens, when he went abroad last spring to invite certain artists to show their work, did not, as has previously been mandatory, limit each exhibitor to one picture. By including fewer artists, he allowed each one to send several representations. Lay visitors?including Calvin Coolidge, Andrew W. Mellon, Paul Claudel?were dazzled as they looked at the blobs of irregular fire against the walls of the Institute; never before...
...squabble last week arose over a drink of brandy. The Vitaphone Co. and one John T. Adams were in court; Mr. Adams battling for $1,250 which he feels Vitaphone owes him as part of a $15,000 salary as musical director. Mr. Adams fed Mary Lewis stimulant in a teacup, so ran the testimony, and her resulting record of the Barcarole (Tales of Hoffman) showed voice strain, was worthless...
Eleven Lieutenants of the United States Navy are stationed at the Engineering School for one year of advanced study in communication engineering, one of the most important subjects in modern naval operations, according to Professor G. W. Pierce '01, director of Cruft Memorial Laboratory, with whom the naval officers are studying. The Navy Department sends selected graduates of Annapolis to the best civil institutions for concentration in certain fields of advanced study after their first six year cruise, and one year of post-graduate work in the Naval Academy...